Fanatics Interview Experience for SWE-1 (On-Campus) 2022

Fanatics Inc. came to our campus for the role of Software Engineer-I (4 months Intern + FTE). There were 4 rounds, which are as follows:

Round 1: Resume shortlisting round where about 20 students were shortlisted for the aptitude test round.

Round 2: It was a HackerEarth aptitude + coding test, which included about 10 aptitude questions on CS fundamentals along with 3 coding questions- 1 easy, 1 medium, and 1 hard. 3 students were selected from this round.

Round 3: Technical interview round which was held on Zoom and CodePad:

1. Introduction
2. Tell me about your summer internship (it was written in my resume)
3. What is my favorite subject? I answered the operating system.
   OS questions:
   1. Semaphore vs Mutex
   2. Which CPU scheduling algorithm is used in Linux?
4. OOP questions:
   1. Tell about the OOP concept
   2. What is polymorphism
   3. Why multiple inheritance is there in C++ but not in Java
5. DSA: what is your favorite data structure? I answered stack.
   1. Function to check if a singly linked list is a palindrome
   2. Search in a row-wise and column wise sorted matrix
   3. Boundary Traversal of binary tree
6. Do you have any questions for us?

Round 4: HR round where introduction, what do you know about Fanatics, why do you want to join Fanatics and later CTC breakdown was discussed.

Final Verdict: I was selected.